Accessing an external hard drive on ubuntu linux

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 13.02.2021, 16:10 -0800 schrieb M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-
users:
> Drive is a 2 TB external hooked up via usb. I installed expat utils and
> still. Am able to see the files but cannot work with them.

Please be a little more precise. Can you read the files, but not write? What
exactly happens, when you try to work with them? Is there an error message?

Have you formated the drive with a new file system, or is it still in its
original state? Were you able to "work with your files" on that drive
before?

You've written before, that you can't access the files at all. So you've
installed exfat-utils, and now you can at least see them? 

And please don't top-post in mailing lists.

Bye,
Volker

> 
> > On Feb 12, 2021, at 9:43 PM, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On 13/2/21 1:05 pm, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 12.02.2021, 19:06 -0800 schrieb M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-
> > > users:
> > > > Hello I have an external drive connecting to ubuntu. I can see the icon for the drive on my desktop but can’t access the files on the drive?
> > > Do you have installed the exfat-utils package?
> > > Volker
> > 
> > My experience is that the xFAT driver has been present by default, in Ubuntu Linux, since 12.04 .
> > 
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